“Are we supposed to believe Finn when he calls Quinn a crazy liar and yells at her about how selfish she is? About how she has everything, and how Rachel has nothing? Last I checked, Quinn Fabray has never had everything. I would love it if other characters would stop negating Quinn's canon struggles and telling her she has everything she wants. Because even when it looked like she had everything, she really didn't, which, I repeat for the umpteenth time, was the point of the character. And she certainly doesn't have everything now, as she's recovering from a near-death experience and trying to regain her ability to walk. And it's here where a second layer of insult is added to Quinn's portrayal in this episode - is Quinn's status as wheelchair-bound really being wielded to make us suspicious about her intent when it comes to a prom queen vote? It is bad enough that this storyline has thus far been incorporated into the narrative as equal parts non-issue and half-assed romantic storyline with a random. It's bad enough that the writers are trying to fly the idea that no one is going to physical therapy with Quinn except Teen Jesus. It's bad enough that Quinn was simply absent for two episodes and seems completely fine when she is present. I'm not sure the fallout from this car accident could have been any more haphazardly handled, unless Quinn died, incorporated as a ghost, and then followed the students of McKinley around, pelting them with wads of chewed gum without any explanation whatsoever.”
—RBI Report (x)
Racism, Revealing Eden and STGRB
fozmeadows.wordpress.comI cannot overstate this enough: calling someone out for racism is not worse than actually being racist. If you care more about being called racist than about the possibility that you actually might be racist, then you have a serious problem, because what you’ve just done, right there? Is concluded that it’s more important to appear to support equality than to actually support equality.
-Foz Meadows
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
—Steve Jobs“Elementary is not an arctic hunter out to club the cute baby seal with the high cheekbones and clothe itself in the fur of BBC Sherlock’s brilliance. It is a pilot fish, as is BBC Sherlock, the Downey movies, the Brett series, the Rathbone/Bruce films, et al, swimming along side a massive Great White; feeding off the genius that is Doyle’s brainchild. ... For those find Elementary a crass attempt to cash in on Sherlock’s world-wide popularity, I hate to burst your bubble; there are no virgins in show business. Show biz, and I do not use the term pejoratively, exists at the corner of commerce and art. When Citizen Kane wakes up in the morning, the money’s there on the bedroom dresser, same as Elementary; same as Sherlock. There are unCanonical elements to CBS’s offering, true; as there is with the BBC’s.”
—“Six Cases Which I Have Added to My Notes”, Baker Street BlogOn how the journey of a detective mirrors that of childhood
“An outsider is trying to make his way in a mysteriously corrupt world, and … all instructions turn out to be false. … All people turn out to have secrets that are hidden, and … the detective tries to find his own moral stance and own path through that environment. And that seemed to me to also be like the journey of childhood.”
—“Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat” [x]
